The Duchess (of Malfi) Olivia Hurton 17/10/2024 676The Duchess (of Malfi) by Zinnie Harris rips into John Webster’s bloody Renaissance tragedy to reassert its timelessness: it’s a...
Reviewer's rating Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five Jad Adams 17/10/2024 887A single microphone rises from a misty stage in a production based on Vonnegut’s 1969 novel Slaughterhouse-Five. This is the...
Oedipus Olivia Hurton 16/10/2024 783Robert Icke’s Oedipus is set in a modern political world. Election campaigns are fought with highly polished videos put out by...
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank Rivka Jacobson 16/10/2024 801Nathan Englander’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank attempts to delve into themes of Jewish identity,...
Brace Brace Tim Hochstrasser 16/10/2024 754What strikes you first and – ultimately – last about this show is the set and how it is used...
The Lehman Trilogy Andrew J Defrin 15/10/2024 904Ben Power’s adaptation of Italian playwright Stefano Massini’s epic The Lehman Trilogy is just that; an epic. Chronicling the Lehman family’s...
Fidelio Marc Berman 15/10/2024 1239Beethoven’s only opera, Fidelio, is often seen as a “problem” piece. It has wonderful music, starting with the overture so...
Eurydice Tim Hochstrasser 15/10/2024 928Sarah Ruhl’s new play at the Jermyn Street Theatre is a real treat on so many levels. I was a...
The Sleepwalker (La Sonnambula) Miho Uchida 14/10/2024 3299Bárbara Lluch’s latest production of Bellini’s La Sonnambula at the New National Theatre Tokyo is an absolute triumph, a veritable...
Foreverland Tim Hochstrasser 14/10/2024 783Emma Hemingford’s new play poses two essential questions – if we could prolong human life more or less without limit,...
